About
Welcome to my garden. I am Luis Mendo, an artist and author based in Tokyo. I've built this place to publish my stories without constrains. I plan to make books with them.
MundoMendo is an independent publication platform, launched on October 1st, 2024. It’s both a way for fans to support my work and it provides a safe space for me to share what I truly want to be making. I have designed and drawn for many clients; beautified other people's ideas and projects for 30 years. It's time for me to give life to my own.
The MundoMendo Book series
For now online only. But once I have collected enough, the best will be bundled into a book series. Although now it's early to decide how those will look like, I am thinking of small volumes that would fit into a box set, holding and protecting them dearly. Bold Members get 20% discount on these too.
Access all areas
By signing up and choosing a membership tier, you'll get access to the full archive everything that gets published until your subscription runs out. It's your own private Luis Mendo library: you get full access to the website, as well as email newsletters about new content when it's available. Bold Members also get all my available digital zines, the Tokyo y Yo book english edition, 20% discount on my Art Prints shop, and 20% off the MundoMendo books when they come out.
Member Pages
Once you become a member, you will find links to your perks on these pages (depending on which membership you've chosen):
• REGULAR Members Page
• BOLD Members Page
Mails & RSS
Every time I upload a new story, your inbox will let you know. Bye algorithms and oppressive ‘social’ feeds. I want Mundo Mendo to be like reading a book that keeps getting more and more pages.
You can expect about a couple of emails per month.
Also, if you prefer, there's an RSS feed.
Striking a POSSE
In order to stay independent and be free from the grip of social media silos, this site is built around the POSSE —publish on your site, syndicate elsewhere— model. Mandy Brown has a good piece about her approach to this, which I share and encourage others to consider.
Manifesto
Why am I Bothering?
Considering we have access to the most powerful tools for art making and art sharing in the history of humanity, we should be doing a better use of it…
With MundoMendo I am hoping to show others that there's alternative ways to share our work while feeding our kids, instead of the super rich.
No more food for the bros
By sharing my work on this website, I am stepping out of the tech billionaire owned machines. This site runs on Ghost, which is a non-profit organization. They are open source, independent, and funded 100% by its users. No investors and no bullshit.
Hiding things behind a paywall you have some protection against AI bots stealing your work too.
For the happy few
MundoMendo is made only for a handful of fans. Sure it’s just a tiny group, but at least I know I can count on their eyes and their hearts.
The value of what I make
With MundoMendo I would like to give extra value to the stories; by offering a reading experience outside the available, my readers do not scroll brainlessly but rejoice looking at things for longer periods of time.
Hopefully inspiring them, making them think about better worlds.
Honoring the craft
I have been involved with magazines, periodicals and media for all my 30+ years of professional life. But I have always been cooking at someone else’s kitchen and now I want to have my own place, the one where I get to decide everything, from the logo to the menu, to the music and the lamps on the tables.
That place is called MundoMendo.
While this site is alive, I will put most of my labour, time and love into making it better. Otherwise I shall stop.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Luis Mendo, September 2024
Credits
Design, texts and drawings all by Luis Mendo.
Jake Giltsoff helped me with the CSS and technical side of things.
Also Nuno Santos helped, so to both of them a big THANK YOU.
This website runs on Ghost CMS.
Payments are facilitated and made secure by Stripe.
The template used is Taste, which actually is made to be used for cooking blogs. Yum.
Typefaces used:
Friend by Beasts of England for the headers
EB Garamond by Georg Duffner for the body text.
Mendo Titles by Luis Mendo for some details.
More Luis Mendo
Personal website • Prints • Bsky • Insta • Mastodon • Threads • LinkedIn
Thank you
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